""Call Out," by Steve Toase, another favorite. A country vet in Yorkshire is called out late at night to tend to a farmer's cow and newborn calf. According to the farmer, the cow had been "cooked" from the inside out after giving birth to her calf, and the "birth waters" had "scorched the floor stone-white clean." Let's just put it this way -- the vet probably should have stayed home. It's another that is wrecked in the telling, so I'll just mention after I read this story I had to put some time and space between myself and this book, especially since I read this story around 2 a.m. all alone in the house."

My first comic script, The Big Wind-Up in the Torsobear: Yarns from Toyburg anthology, is fast getting funded and turned into beautiful illustrations. My nipples explode with delight! Here's some bloggery about the experience.

Thanks guys. Current situation is this badboy will hit a POD run in 6 months if I fail to sell it by other means. This is merely a prototype. Is pretty though! The art is by the very talented Mr Iain Laurie of And Then Emily Was Gone fame, which we should all be reading.

Same here, Atav. Congrats to all! I have been meaning to get back into writing, if anything simply for the process of brain > fingers > keys > paper (I have a typewriter). I'm not sure what would come out of me now, as I have changed some since I last wrote a good amount of content. Althogh, I never really knew what it was I did to begin with.